# mín
## Faroese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mʊin]

### Pronoun

mín
* me; genitive singular of eg (‘I’, the first person personal pronoun)

#### Declension
### Pronoun

mín
* my, mine; the first person possessive pronoun

#### Declension

Possessive pronoun - ognarfornavn :
| Singular (eintal) | m | f | n |
| Nominative (hvørfall) | mín | mín | mítt |
| Accusative (hvønnfall) | mín | mína | mítt |
| Dative (hvørjumfall) | mínum | míni / mínari | mínum |
| Genitive (hvørsfall) | (míns) | (mínar) | (míns) |
| Plural (fleirtal) | m | f | n |
| Nominative (hvørfall) | mínir | mínar | míni |
| Accusative (hvønnfall) | mínar | mínar | míni |
| Dative (hvørjumfall) | mínum | mínum | mínum |
| Genitive (hvørsfall) | (mína) | (mína) | (mína) |

## Icelandic
### Etymology 1
#### Pronoun

mín
* genitive singular of ég: (of) me
    Þú ætlar að ganga til mín.You are going to walk to me.
    Hver er stysta leiðin til að fara heim til mín?What is the shortest way to go home to me?

##### Declension

Icelandic personal pronouns :
| singular | first person | second person | third person masculine | third person feminine | third person neuter |
| nominative | ég, eg, ek | þú | hann | hún, hon, hón | það, þat |
| accusative | mig, mik | þig, þik | hann | hana | það, þat |
| dative | mér | þér | honum, hánum | henni | því |
| genitive | mín | þín | hans | hennar | þess |
| plural | first person | second person | third person masculine | third person feminine | third person neuter |
| nominative | við | þið, þit | þeir | þær | þau |
| accusative | okkur | ykkur | þá | þær | þau |
| dative | okkur | ykkur | þeim | þeim | þeim |
| genitive | okkar | ykkar | þeirra | þeirra | þeirra |

### Etymology 2
#### Determiner

mín
* inflection of minn (“my/mine”):
** nominative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative neuter plural
    Þetta er mín eign.This is my property.

## Irish
### Etymology

From Old Irish mín (“smooth, level, calm; self-restrained, gentle, placid, courteous, docile, subdued, tame; digestible, palatable; soft”), from Proto-Celtic *mīnis (“soft, tender”), which is related to *mētos, from Proto-Indo-European *meyh₁- (“mild, soft”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mʲiːnʲ/

### Adjective

mín (genitive singular masculine mín, genitive singular feminine míne, plural míne, comparative míne)
* smooth
* soft, dainty, tender
* fine (of a comb, sieve, etc.)

#### Declension

$^1$ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article. $^2$ When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

#### Derived terms

* abhras mín (“fine yarn”)
* aiteann mín (“dwarf whin”)
* bairneach mín (“blue-rayed limpit”)
* chomh mín le síoda (“smooth as silk”)
* cíor mhín (“fine-toothed comb”)
* craiceann bog mín (“soft smooth skin”)
* feochadán mín (“carline thistle”)
* greabhán mín (“horsebane”)
* leathóg mhín (“lemon sole”)
* lus mín (“dill”)
* meallach mín (“smooth and enticing”)
* mín áilghean (“soft and mild”)
* mín le do chneas (“soft next one's skin”)
* mín marbh (“still and insensible”)
* mín réidh (“smooth and even”)
* mín síodúil (“smooth and silky”)
* mínigh (“to smooth, polish; explain”)
* mínscoth (“knapweed”)
* míntír f (“mainland”)
* olann mhín (“sheer wool”)
* plána mín (“smoothing-plane”)
* praiseach mhín (“orache”)
* salann mín (“table salt”)
* siúcra mín (“castor sugar”)
* teanga mhín (“white dead-nettle”)
* úir mhín (“fine soil, mould”)

### Noun

mín f (genitive singular míne, nominative plural mínte)
* smooth, fine thing or part
* (geography) smooth, level land; tillable land; tract of grassland in mountain

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
mín
mínte
vocative
a mhín
a mhínte
genitive
míne
mínte
dative
mín
mínte
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an mhín
na mínte
genitive
na míne
na mínte
dative
leis an mín don mhín
leis na mínte :

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 126, page 67

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mín”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Mandarin
### Alternative forms

* min — nonstandard

### Romanization

mín (min$^2$, Zhuyin ㄇㄧㄣˊ)
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 姄
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 岷
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 崏
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 忞
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 忟
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 怋
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 捪
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 敯
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 旻
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 旼
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 暉 / 晖
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 民
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 珉
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 琘
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瑉
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 痻
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 盿
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 砇
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 碈
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 緍 / 𦈏
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 緡 / 缗
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 缗
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 罠
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 苠
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 賬 / 账
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鈱 / 𲇸
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 錉
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鍲
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 閔 / 闵
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 閺

## Old Norse
### Determiner

mín
* inflection of mínn:
** feminine nominative singular
** neuter nominative/accusative plural

### Pronoun

mín
* genitive of ek